[pmwiki-users] Setting page privs from config.php

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 07:42:30 CDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> Friday, October 2, 2009, 7:33:51 AM, Christian Bartolomaeus wrote:
>
>> My suggestion was to override the global passwords (from config.php)
>> in a page customization file (say Main.Test.php for page Main.Test).
>
> I think it is unwise to set any default password
> in a page or group customisation file, because
> a page protected in such a way will not be protected if it is for
> instance included by another page.
> To have proper protection for an individual page its
> password attributes need to be set in the page with action=attr,
> or for the group in the GroupAttributes page with action=attr.
> Do not use a page customization php file for this!

Whoa! This is a bit off-topic but, Hey!  This could come in really
handy.  There have been times when that's *just* what I wanted -- to
protect a page itself from being read (or edited) directly, but still
allow it to show up in an include. Good to keep in mind.



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